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Attaching to Local Process

Introduction

Attach to local process feature allows you to debug a project which you are developing in RubyMine, but (for some reasons) are not able to launch directly from your IDE.

Currently Attach to Process is supported only for macOS and Linux platforms.

For Linux users, native SDK should be added to the list of available SDKs in the Ruby SDK and Gems page of the Settings dialog. This way, native SDK will be detected by RubyMine and suggested for use for an external script.

Note that native SDK is not supported for macOS for security reasons.

Note that Attach to process works only for MRI Rubies version 2.0 and higher.

Prerequisite for macOS users

Attach to process uses in its work the Python module six, which may be missing in your macOS installation.

If six Python module is not installed, then install it using any method of your convenience, for example pip install six. Refer to this page for details.

Attaching to local process

To attach to a local process, follow these general steps:

Launch the process intended for debugging. You can do it from operating system or using the RubyMine terminal.

To find the process to attach to, do one of the following:

On the main menu, choose Run | Attach to Local Process:

On the main menu, choose Help | Find Action or press Ctrl+Shift+A. In the list of actions that appears, find the desired action by typing the first letters, and select it:

From the list of available processes that appears, select the desired process. Simplify your search by typing the first letters of its name or PID